M Pepper Langlinais

i thought i'd read this one before, but i wasn't sure. until i read the ending. honestly, this one was pretty mediocre. i'm lowkey sad that this one was my 100th book of the year :( it was a pretty neat little sherlock holmes story, but nothing terribly special. the mystery seems dark and murky until holmes gets there!! i guess it kinda says something that i read this one at some point and just didn't remember until i opened it in my kindle app and found it on the last page. gunna be honest, i skimmed this one. and the plot twist at the end where mycroft is dead?? kinda just clickbaity. anyways, onto the next!… (mehr)

In this short story, Holmes and Watson, with Mrs Hudson in tow, leave the capital following the death of Sherlock's brother Mycroft, to visit the family estate, where various dark secrets of the Holmes family emerge. I didn't think this was a good story. While the backdrop sounds suitably dramatic, it is not well written, and the dialogue didn't really feel true to the characters (though it was by no means the worst pastiche I have read in that respect). What Mycroft is supposed to have done in this story are inconsistent with his persona in the Doyle canon.… (mehr)